Maria A. Wimmer

• Dr. Habil, Dr. techn, Dipl.Ing.
• Chair at University Koblenz

Stakeholder involvement is crucial in smart city initiatives, with growing emphasis on inclusive participation of all social groups. By means of a systematic literature review, we study how inclusive participation is conceptualized in smart city initiatives. We therefore study publications on digital and analogue participation formats in smart city...

With the advent of the Internet along with the vastly evolving digital tools and technologies, digital participation bears great potentials for better democratic participation and the inclusion of less active citizens and marginalized groups. In this chapter, we discuss digital participation at the municipal level from an urban-rural perspective. W...

Rural regions in Germany are facing increasing difficulties in ensuring equitable access to healthcare, driven by demographic change, a growing shortage of medical professionals, and fragmented health information infrastructures. To address these challenges, a team of students, working within the Smart City project of Linz am Rhein, conducted a com...

Digitalization is transforming democracy by enabling new forms of political participation through e-participation and e-democracy. While these concepts use ICT to engage citizens in democratic decision-making, trust remains a key challenge. In this study, we investigate citizens’ awareness, knowledge, and use of e-participation in the metropolitan...

A unified framework outlining the procedures and methods necessary to adhere to data management standards is essential for effective Data Governance. Data Governance Frameworks serve as a guide to secure and trustworthy data exchange between different (legal) entities. Their specific implications differ based on the field they are incorporated in....

Introducing new systems in public administrations requires rethinking traditional workflows and restructuring organizational frames. To achieve long-term efficiency and sustainability, public administrations must strategically adopt modern technologies, streamlining and synchronizing interconnected workflows. This process is complex and requires at...

The increasing complexity of the extensive regulatory frameworks in the European Union (EU) creates significant challenges for public procurement processes. Besides the existing Public Procurement Directives, new regulations, such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the Corporate Supply Chain Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD),...

For efficient radio network planning, empirical path loss (PL) prediction models are utilized to predict signal attenuation in different environments. Alternatively, machine learning (ML) models are proposed to predict path loss. While empirical models are transparent and require less computational capacity, their predictions are not able to genera...

Assessing vines’ vigour is essential for vineyard management and automatization of viticulture machines, including shaking adjustments of berry harvesters during grape harvest or leaf pruning applications. To address these problems, based on a standardized growth class assessment, labeled ground truth data of precisely located grapevines were predi...

Small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are often struggling with digital transformation and are underrepresented in public procurement procedures. This underrepresentation causes substantial loss of economic potential. Contemporary research and development on the ongoing digitalization of public procurement is not targeting SMEs sufficiently. Th...

This paper explores the emerging field of data governance, which involves managing data through roles, rules, and policies. It aims to systematize diverse concepts and viewpoints in data governance by analyzing academic and grey literature. Through literature analysis, we examine the relationships between key concepts of data governance and major c...

Digital twin is a rising market in both, public and private sectors. Many city projects, like Herrenberg, Rotterdam, New York, and Connected Urban Twin (CUT, in Germany) develop digital twins to explore their possibilities and improve the quality of life in the city. In this paper, we review literature on smart city and digital twins to build the s...

The implementation of Smart Cities and Smart Regions is characterized by a high level of participation. While adults are often involved, children and young people tend to be under-represented. In consequence, ideas and suggestions of children and young people are not considered. This article reports on participation of pupils in a Smart City projec...

Even if the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic recedes, research regarding the effectiveness of government policies to contain the spread of the pandemic remains important. In this study, we analyze the impact of a set of epidemiological factors on the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in 30 European countries, which were applied from early 2020 up to mid-2022. We combine fou...

By applying AI techniques to a variety of pandemic-relevant data, artificial intelligence (AI) has substantially supported the control of the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Along with this, epidemiological machine learning studies of SARS-CoV-2 have been frequently published. While these models can be perceived as precise and policy-relevant to gu...

Public Procurement Procedures are crucial to economies globally, especially in the European Union. These procedures include different phases, actors, processes, business documents, and information assets that must be arranged across several architectural layers of a pan-European public procurement ecosystem. Orchestrating the aforementioned aspects...

Even when the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic recedes, evidence-based researches regarding the effectiveness of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical government interventions (NPIs) remain important. In this study, SARS-CoV-2 data of 30 European countries from early 2020 up to mid 2022 are analyzed using Bayesian machine learning. Four data sources containing...

Die Digitalisierung wird aktuell stark durch Daten-getriebene Ansätze vorangetrieben, da mehr und mehr Daten von vielen verschiedenen Akteuren erhoben werden. Dieser Trend ist auch im Bereich öffentliche Verwaltung spürbar. Bisher gab es in diesem Kontext jedoch wenig Standar-disierung. Auf EU-Ebene werden erste Konzepte und Verordnungen beschlosse...

Die öffentliche elektronische Beschaffung sieht sich derzeitig mit einer Vielzahl an Herausforderungen wie einer unstrukturierten pre-award Phase, einem nicht regulierten Übergang zwischen pre-und post-award und einer Vielzahl von Barrieren für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) konfrontiert. Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, zu analysieren, inwiewei...

The standardization of procurement procedures is a complex process requiring multiple layers of interoperability along the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) to be ensured. The high number of distinct actors and different legal frameworks involved hampers efficiency and interoperability of procedures. This problem situation is even more crit...

Das Werk dient als Handbuch zur standardbasierten, digitalen Beschaffung in der Praxis. Außerdem dient es zusätzlich der weiteren breiten Bekanntmachung des Themas und den (geplanten) Ergebnissen des Kooperationsprojekts "Digitalisierung der Beschaffung - Kooperationsprojekt zur standardbasierten Digitalisierung des öffentlichen Einkaufs- und Besch...

As more and more people are moving to bigger cities, housing is becoming less and less available and cities are becoming more congested due to the high number of people and their cars. This leads to increased traffic, congestion, air pollution and degradation of quality of life. One approach to deal with this problem is to operate autonomously driv...

Digitalization in public services constantly progresses. Aspects investigated in research on digital public services range from strategic subjects to organizational, semantic and technical concepts and solutions, and also include user interaction and the hardware used thereby. This work investigates the use of ‘convertible devices” in emergency man...

The broad diffusion of so-called disruptive technologies in the public sector is expected to heavily impact and give a strong digital boost to public service provisioning. To ensure acceptance and sustainability, the benefits and challenges of using disruptive technologies in public service provisioning need to be well researched. This chapter appl...

Emerging technologies and digital transformation in government and society, called Government 3.0, put forward new training needs for graduates in the area. The ERASMUS+ research project “Scientific Foundations Training and Entrepreneurship Activities in the Domain of ICT-enabled Governance” (Gov 3.0) established the scientific domain of Government...

Among the biggest challenges rural areas currently face are the impact of demographic change and limited mobility offers. While younger people tend to either move to urban areas or have their own car at hand for satisfying everyday needs, elderly or people with compromised health suffer most from these challenges. They prefer to live in their habit...

With the increased availability of data and the capacity to make sense of these data, computational approaches to analyze, model and simulate public policy evolved toward viable instruments to deliberate, plan, and evaluate them in different areas of application. Such examples include infrastructure, mobility, monetary, or austerity policies, polic...

Digitale Transformation ist das Schlagwort der Stunde in der Modernisierung von Staat und öffentlicher Verwaltung. Strategiepolitische Zielsetzungen im eGovernment Aktionsplan der EU und im Digitalisierungsprogramm der deutschen Bundesregierung legen fest, dass Staat und öffentliche Verwaltungen bis 2020 öffentliche Dienstleistungen für ihre Verwal...

Digital transformation has become a recent keyword in the evolution of public sector modernization through the once-only principle (OOP). The once-only principle is among the seven driving principles in the eGovernment Action Plan 2016–2020 of the European Commission (EC). It requires that citizens and businesses need not to provide the same data t...

Studierendenmobilität erfordert den Informationsaustausch über Organisations- und Staatsgrenzen hinweg. Besondere Ansprüche entstehen dabei, insofern die Informationen unter anderem Leistungsbeurteilungen umfassen und in recht unterschiedlichen Systemen anschlussfähig abgebildet werden. Gleichzeitig ist wünschenswert, dass der Austausch, entspreche...

Internet of things (IoT) is one of the current disruptive technologies that is considered one of the most promising and widely discussed topics in connection with Smart City implementations. However, the IoT revolution comes along with other so-called disruptive technologies. Making sense of the data gathered through sensors comes along with discus...

The Once Only Principle (OOP) drives current public sector modernization through the reduction of administrative burdens. It requires public authorities not to ask citizens and companies to repeatedly provide information to the public authorities. Instead, public authorities shall share and re-use data among themselves in due respect of data protec...

The increasing use of disruptive technologies in the public sector pushes toward the next stage of the digital government evolution: Government 3.0. This new stage is characterised by the focus on data-driven and evidence-based decision and policy making, where disruptive technologies are deployed. Along this, the engagement of citizens and other s...

While the public sector traditionally lags behind business in innovation, significant changes are anticipated with the broad diffusion of so-called disruptive technologies. The use of such technologies in public service, along with possible benefits, need to be well researched, and challenges be carefully discussed, analysed and evaluated. This pap...

Over the past years, a number of new technologies have emerged with a potential to disrupt many spheres of the society. While public sector traditionally lacks behind business in innovation, significant changes are anticipated with the use of disruptive technologies. The implementation of the new technologies for the government service provision, a...

Technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, Internet of things, chatbots and other disruptive technologies may bring innovations to the public sector. However, the way in which such disruptive technologies could be deployed in various areas of digital government needs systematic investigation to understand emerging research and...

HCI4D is context-oriented. Literature highlights that successful implementation of HCI solutions in developing countries needs deeper understanding of the context. Despite numerous literatures pointing the importance of context-oriented HCI4D, there is no holistic method that guides researchers and implementers of HCI solutions in analysing differe...

Researchers argue the potential of mobile technologies to bridge challenges of e-government in developing countries. Despite the demand, research on the design and implementation of m-government is still scarce. The current literature hardly provides comprehensive recommendations for implementing such services in developing countries. This paper ai...

Government 3.0' as the new paradigm brings in new disruptive technologies in the digitization process of the public sector. The massive use of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, Internet of Things and other technologies in public service provisioning that have a potential to significantly influence the life of a large nu...

How are e-government and Internet policy organised and developed in different countries? This comprehensively revised volume answers this question and addresses the latest developments within the amended framework of digitalisation, such as cybersecurity, data protection, open government and e-democracy, among others. With contributions by Ana Azur...

This paper introduces the Gov 3.0 project “Scientific foundations training and entrepreneurship activities in the domain of ICT-enabled Governance”. The objective of the project is to establish a knowledge alliance targeting the research and training challenges in the field of ICT-enabled Governance. The project is strongly connected to the theme o...

Interoperability has become a crucial value in European e-government developments, as promoted by the Digital Single Market strategy and the Tallinn Declaration. The European Union and its Member States have made considerable investments in improving the understanding of interoperability and in developing interoperable building blocks to support cr...

E-participation provides a means to involve citizens in e-government decision-making. The ease of access to e-participation processes has raised the issue of trustworthiness of both the institutions promoting processes and the citizens participating in these processes. While trust in ICT applications, such as e-commerce and social media networks, h...

This paper introduces the Gov 3.0 project "Scientific foundations training and entrepreneurship activities in the domain of ICT-enabled Governance". The objective of the project is to establish a knowledge alliance targeting the research and training challenges in the field of ICT-enabled Governance. The project is strongly connected to the theme o...

The design of mobile government (m-government) services requires a comprehensive approach, which accommodates different aspects of government as an enterprise. Such an approach should provide guidance and relationships among design activities such as requirements analysis, conceptual design of processes, data, and technologies, stakeholder involvem...

Despite the potential of m-government in developing countries, research in its design and implementation is still scarce. In an empirical study, requirements of m-government service design have been elicited in developing countries. The study focused on requirements regarding the design and the approaches used to design m-government services. This...

Questionnaire for Training Needs Post it session for the definition of the term "Government 3.0" and related issues.

Governments are facing demands towards more transparency, better connectivity and collaboration among different actors in public service provisioning. Their constituencies demand that public services better reflect citizens' needs and social innovation. Integrating Internet, Web 2.0, social media and new concepts of open government and community go...

The Once-Once Principle (OOP) suggests that citizens and businesses should have the right to supply information only once to a public administration. It would then be the responsibility of public administration offices to take all necessary actions in order to internally share this data by respecting the relevant data protection rules. The overall...

The ubiquity of mobile devices has drawn new attention to the field of electronic government. Literature studies report on the significance of m-government, including its motivation, success, and failure in developed and developing countries. However, research on the design of m-government applications is still scarce. Design approaches in the lite...

The once-only principle is among the seven driving principles in the eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020 of the EU. To boost developments towards administrative burden reduction and simplification of procedures, two projects are funded to investigate once-only principle implementations: SCOOP4C and TOOP. SCOOP4C aims to investigate, discuss and disse...

E-participation projects are complex socio-technical constructs integrating different concepts such as participation techniques, stakeholders, objectives, information artefacts, and technical facilities. To conceptualise comprehensive solutions of e-participation projects in a holistic way – i.e. comprehensively integrating the different concepts f...

To develop robust and achievable e-government strategies that build the grounds for sustainable solutions, decision makers need to have a good understanding of their country’s socio-economic, political and legal contexts. Particularly, they need to be well aware about challenges that might hinder successful implementation of their strategy. To make...

Interoperability is a major challenge in providing pan-European e-government services (PEGS) across Member State (MS) borders. Improving interoperability in PEGS is expected to increase collaboration and efficiency across public administrations. Yet, a comprehensive approach to develop interoperable PEGS is still missing. Enterprise architecture (E...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2016, held in Guimaraes, Portugal, in September 2016, in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on eParticipation, ePart 2016. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 sub...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2016, held in Guimarães, Portugal, in September 5-8, 2016. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The papers reflect completed multi-disciplinary research ranging f...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Digital Transformation and Global Society, DTGS 2016, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in June 2016. The 43 revised full papers and 15 revised short papers, presented together with 3 poster papers and an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 157...

Developing countries continue to rely on solutions and research from developed countries as they strive for more successful e-government endeavours. Different authors argue that the transfer of solutions and expertise among developed and developing countries is not a straightforward task and the context of countries is a significant influencing fac...

Fachtagung Verwaltungsinformatik FTVI, Fachtagung Rechtsinformatik FTRI

Agent-based policy modelling is an application of agent-based social simulation. In this contribution it is applied to strategic policy making in the public sector. Open government principles relevant in this domain demand solutions that trace the origins of modelling decisions from narrative texts (background documents and stakeholder scenarios) t...

The explosive growth in data, conmputational power, and social media creates new opportunities for innovating governance and policy-making. These information and communication technology (ICT) developments affect all parts of the policy-making cycle and result in drastic changes in the way policies are developed. To take advantage of these developm...

Using computer simulations in examining, explaining and predicting social processes and relationships as well as measuring possible impact of policies has become an important part of policy-making. This chapter presents a comparative analysis of simulation models utilised in the field of policy-making. Different models and modelling theories and ap...

While the twentieth century is considered the century of population explosion and the burning of fossil fuels, environmental policies and the transition to effectively use renewable energy sources has become a priority of strategies in regions, countries and internationally. Different projects have been initiated to study the best suitable transiti...

E-government challenges are well researched in literature and well known by governments. However, being aware of the challenges of e-government implementation is not sufficient, as challenges may interrelate and impact each other. Therefore, a systematic analysis of the challenges and their interrelationships contributes to providing a better under...

Administrations increasingly struggle with changing requirements demanding more transparency, better connectivity and collaboration among different actors, and better responding to particular needs and social innovations of their constituencies. Using the Internet, social media, crowd-sourcing and mobile technologies influence communication structu...

Bei einer Online-Bürgerbeteiligung (E-Partizipation) geben Bürgerinnen und Bürger vielfach direkt oder indirekt ihre eigene Meinung, ihre Gesinnung, ihre Herkunft etc. an die Öffentlichkeit bzw. in einem „halb-öffentlichen“ Bereich preis. Damit setzen sie sich – bewusst oder unbewusst – dem Risiko des Missbrauchs dieser persönlichen, sensiblen Date...

Administrations increasingly struggle with changing requirements demanding more transparency, better connectivity and collaboration among different actors, and better responding to particular needs and social innovations of their constituencies. Using the Internet, social media, crowd-sourcing and mobile technologies influence communication structu...

The explosive growth in data, computational power, and social media creates new opportunities for innovating the processes and solutions of Information and communications technology (ICT) based policy-making and research. To take advantage of these developments in the digital world, new approaches, concepts, instruments and methods are needed to na...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2015, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in August/September 2015. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical section...

Decreasing election turnouts and citizens’ disinterest in democracy galvanized the European Commission (EC) to co-fund a set of e-participation pilot projects. During the runtime of the program, and in particular after the last projects ended in 2010, policy makers at European level were keen to know how well this funding program performed. Hence,...

E-participation has become subject of considerable research over the past decade. However, trust as a pre-condition and result of e-participation has not yet been extensively investigated in e-participation research. In literature, trust is perceived as a complex construct studied in distinct research disciplines. To identify and implement measures...

The modern world is facing global challenges while at the same time becoming more and more interconnected, dynamic and complex in nature. Accordingly, appropriate methods and tools for successful open and collaborative public governance and public policy making supported by innovative ICT are increasingly becoming important. Along the demands for t...

Trust plays a significant role along the life-cycle of (electronic) participation initiatives. Based on causal roles that trust may have according to Rousseau et al. [31, p.396] - (1) trust as condition for participation, (2) trust during participation, and (3) trust as outcome of participation - it is imperative to analyse these influential roles...

Der weltweite digitale Sprech- und Datenfunkt befindet sich seit einigen Jahren im Aufbau. Für die reine Sprachkommunikation wird er in Deutschland na¬hezu flächendeckend eingesetzt. Die Datenkommunikation und speziell die Über¬mittlung von Statusmeldungen gestaltet sich hingegen aufwendig, da sie nicht wie im bishe-rigen Analogfunk über den Sprach...

The maturity of e-government implementation in research and practice has developed tremendously over the years. Nevertheless, the challenges encountered and the overall growth of e-government in different countries varies; studies by organizations such as the UN and World Bank evidence these variations. To successfully implement e-government, gover...

Citizen engagement in political discourse and in democratic decision-making via innovative online means (coined e-participation) has become subject of considerable research over the past decade. However, mass engagement of citizens in online consultation and decision-making contexts remains an unsatisfied expectation. In this paper, we investigate...

A key benefit of standards and commonly shared technical specifications in ICT is their role in facilitating interoperability. However, standards need to achieve market acceptance to create real impact. Underlying interoperability architectures need to be further developed, improved and maintained. The aim of this paper is to analyze, which depende...

An OECD study of 2009 argues that open and inclusive policy making helps to improve policy performance and to meet citizens rising expectations. An important aspect shaping the success of policy making is the use of appropriate tools and instruments to model (public) policy, i.e. to use theories, methods and tools that support the process of transf...

Over the past decade, the inclusion of citizens in political decisionmaking through electronic participation (e-participation) has received much attention. Many projects have been, and are continued to be executed at different levels of government. E-participation projects aim at providing a facilitating online environment, where citizens and other...

The dynamic and tremendous evolution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has provided unique opportunities for citizen participation in democratic decision making processes. Such opportunities have been widely noted, in recent years, in processes like Participatory Budgeting (PB). From the originating practices of PB in Brazil, exp...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2014, held in Dublin, Ireland, in September 2014. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: foundations;...

An OECD study of 2009 argues that open and inclusive policy making helps to improve policy performance and to meet citizens rising expectations. An important aspect shaping the success of policy making is the use of appropriate tools and instruments to model (public) policy, i.e. to use theories, methods and tools that support the process of transf...